Former Stanford admissions officer: 'Well-rounded is not enough'—here's how to really stand out. (via CNBCMakeIt)
CNBC Make It spoke with Alix Coupet, a former admissions officer at colleges such as Stanford University and the University of Chicago, and a current lead counselor at college counseling firm Empowerly to talk about what students should do to stand out.Over the past year, a vast number of colleges have stopped requiring students to submit standardized test scores such as the SAT or ACT. Many schools, includingCoupet says that this has increased the importance of a student's personal essay.
Now, he says applicants are spending additional time crafting personal essays that help them stand out. His first piece of advice is to start writing early so that students can spend ample time writing, and re-writing, their essays. "We were all adolescents at one point and there's an emphasis on being 'normal' but I'm liking the way that students more frequently now are willing to be weird and willing to be themselves a lot more. Colleges are definitely looking for that," he says. "Admissions counselors are human and if 100 kids say the same thing we can get a little tired of mundane stories. And so we are looking for stories that are going to be distinctive.
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